Smart Lighting Expands LED Smart Home Market

In the process of industrial development that has passed, there have been three distinct changes in the pattern of the lighting industry due to changes in the external environment. Each change in the industrial structure has affected the survival status of lighting companies. At present, due to the development of LED lighting, China's lighting industry is once again facing a critical period of significant changes in the industrial structure. The pattern of lighting industry has changed and intelligent lighting has been favored, and smart homes are gradually becoming the first choice for smart lighting energy saving.

Lighting industry pattern change

China's lighting industry started from the early 1980s, and after 30 years of rapid, steady, sustained development, from the initial small industry with a total production value of less than 10 billion yuan, to 2011, the annual gross production value reached 350 billion yuan. industry. In the meantime, even if China's economy has undergone cyclical adjustments, the Chinese lighting industry has basically maintained a double-digit growth momentum.

Marketization gave birth to the development of private enterprises. The lighting industry, especially the lighting industry, has the characteristics of less investment, quick results, and strong individual product characteristics. In the mid-1980s, when China transformed from a planned economy to a market economy, it attracted a large amount of private capital into the lighting industry within a short period of time. The number of enterprises has increased rapidly. In this process, the state-owned lighting companies that previously dominated the lighting industry gradually withdrew. By the late 1990s, the Chinese lighting industry was mainly based on private enterprises, and there were few state-owned enterprises.

Increased market competition has led to corporate consolidation. The rapid increase in the number of enterprises has aggravated market competition. In order to ensure the competitiveness of the market, enterprises have increased investment, expanded the scale of enterprises, and integrated upstream and downstream resources in an effort to minimize production costs. For example, light source companies adopt mechanization to expand production capacity, lighting companies integrate ballast industry and so on. During this period, many light source companies and ballast manufacturers shut down, stop, merge, and transfer.

Changes in the end market demand have changed the market position of light source companies and lighting companies. The improvement of living standards has changed consumer demand for lighting products. Consumers' understanding of the brand has changed, which has led to a change in the market position of lighting companies and further promoted the integration of upstream and downstream resources in the lighting industry. Many light source companies have developed downstream and started to produce light fixtures. The light fixture companies have developed upwards and involved light source production. The "chicken and egg" debate in the lighting field in the early 1980s did not end.

Smart lighting or smart home energy-saving first choice

The so-called intelligent lighting control product is to ensure that the lamp works normally and outputs the best lighting power to the lamp. In this way, the illumination glare caused by overvoltage can be reduced, the light emitted by the light can be softened, the illumination distribution can be more uniform, and the electric energy can be greatly saved. Intelligent lighting control system energy-saving rate of up to 20% to 40%.

At present, city managers gradually realize the technical advantages of smart lighting products and begin to promote them in the society. In the Olympic Technology Outlook Forum, smart lighting was put on the agenda. The relevant Shanghai municipal department decided that in the peak season of power consumption in summer, the street lights on the main landscape road in Shanghai downtown should be installed with intelligent control systems. Although the government vigorously promotes smart lighting products, smart lighting control technology is complex and there are few companies that have mastered this technology, such as Lutron in the United States and big companies such as Bunge, Thorn, and ABB in Australia. There are only a few companies in the horizontal.

From the perspective of the current development of intelligent lighting control technology, various companies apply modern technologies such as PC, IC, and IT in the switching technology, adding new functions such as wireless remote control and brightness stepless adjustment to the lamps and lanterns to facilitate user use. From the perspective of the composition of the lighting control system, there are currently bus-type, power line carrier type, wireless network type. From the perspective of technology development, wireless network technology has unique advantages. In recent years, it has been rapidly developed in the IT field and has become a new hot spot in the IT industry and semiconductor industry.

The wireless network lighting control system is a home intelligent network control system that uses radio to communicate. The control signals sent by each system control unit are transmitted in the form of radio waves. After each system control unit receives these propagation information, it performs corresponding actions according to the system communication protocol to implement intelligent network control.

Like the power line carrier solution, the wireless light control system does not have a dedicated network cable, and installation or expansion is very simple. This solution can also use battery-powered, no connection power cord, very flexible and convenient, but also reduces the user's cost.

Industry experts pointed out that the intelligent lighting control system connects an independent control module such as the dimmer module, switching power, scene Control Panel, sensor and programmer, programming socket, pc monitor, etc. to the computer data line to form an independent lighting control system. The intelligent management and automatic control of the lighting system can be realized, which facilitates the creation of a comfortable lighting environment and is beneficial to people's health. It will become a new trend in the development of lighting technology in the future.

Smart Lighting Expands LED Smart Home Market

Some experts predict that intelligentization is an important way to further develop the lighting industry to green and sustainable development. Intelligent lighting is expected to become the main force in the future smart home market. At present, smart lighting has changed from the original single remote control switch to today's intelligent sensor lighting, intelligent scene lighting, and intelligent remote control lighting. The effect achieved has also changed from a single dimming to today's light soft-starting speed control. Cold and warm lighting, high and low voltage dimming, LED full color spectrum dimming and so on.

The combination of intelligent and energy-saving lighting technology has created a technology platform for LED applications, embodying the concepts of energy saving, consumption reduction, long life, and people-oriented green and sustainable lighting. In addition to energy saving, consumption reduction, and environmental protection, LED lighting is also malleable, not only as a lighting tool, but also as a work of art or a multi-purpose device. The development of LED technology has inspired the rich imagination of lighting manufacturers, thus creating more innovative products that subvert the mind and winning a broader market.

LED lighting has the characteristics of small size, simple construction, no additional parts and housings such as starter, ballast or EHV transformer, no volume limitation and complicated structure; it produces color by the semiconductor PN junction itself, three Basic color plus digital technology, can evolve any color; sophisticated LED light source can adapt to a variety of geometric sizes and different spatial size decorative lighting requirements. For example, point, line, surface, ball and other shapes, as well as any artistic lighting sculpture. Therefore, LED intelligent lighting is applied in the home field and can be combined with home creativity to bring about imaginative home life.